People
March 13, 2018
Arno Motulsky (1923-2018)
The founder of the UW Division of Genetics in 1957 lived a life of twists and turns.
March 6, 2018
Cyber safe
Stefan Savage, ’02, earned a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on cyber security.
March 4, 2018
Keeper of the flame
A founding member of UW's Black Student Union, Emile Pitre has spent 50 years building solutions from the inside out.
The man who made us look
Psychology professor Anthony Greenwald developed the Implicit Association Test, a rapid-fire survey that reveals the biases that lurk inside us.
March 3, 2018
Perfectly Claire
Best-selling feminist author Claire Dederer, ’93, on growing up grunge, creating a literary canon for the Northwest, and bad men who create great art.
OMA&D at 50: The people behind the movement
Student activism in 1968 led the UW to create one of the nation’s first offices of minority affairs. Here’s their story. And their outlook for the future.
March 1, 2018
Donald Matthews, 1925-2007
In post-Vietnam America, when political activity on college campuses caused rising tensions, Donald Matthews used his passion for politics to ease conflict and create a lasting legacy. The political science professor died Nov. 3.
February 26, 2018
Nurturing higher education
Under the leadership of David Mitchell, Bremerton's Olympic College grew into one of America's best two-year institutions.
February 14, 2018
A story in every bottle
Jackson Rohrbaugh, ’09, is the newly minted master sommelier at Canlis, one of Seattle's premier fine-dining spots.
January 11, 2018
Woman in blue
After 30 years with the Seattle Police Department, Noreen Skagen, ’52, became the first woman U.S. Marshal of Western Washington.
January 9, 2018
The lunch guy
Fueled by an appetite for social justice, Jeffrey Lew, ’06, set out to end the stigma of school lunch debt.
December 15, 2017
Community conscience
Life lessons from newspaper publisher Assunta Ng, ’74, ’76, ’79.
December 14, 2017
No more number 16
The best volleyball player in UW history, Krista Vansant, '15, had her jersey retired.
December 7, 2017
A bike with a boost
A UW-trained engineer quit his job to shake up the burgeoning world of electric bikes.
New Northwest
The first Northwest history textbook written since 1989 isn't a boring list of facts—it's a compilation of riveting, high-stakes stories.
December 1, 2017
A veteran’s quest
Ray Emory, the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient, has worked for decades to identify the remains of those lost at Pearl Harbor.
November 30, 2017
Thinking positive
An undiagnosed traumatic brain injury rocked her life. By thinking positive, Shanda Taylor Boyd, '94, took back control.
November 15, 2017
Students of nature
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is changing the faces—and future—of conservation.
November 9, 2017
A guardian of history
Karyl Winn preserved the stories of some of our region’s most important figures.